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DEHYDROACETIC ACID

Not on the EU Annex III list

Dehydroacetic Acid is the cyclic ketone that conforms to the formula:

DEHYDROACETIC ACID is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional category Preservative, with CAS number 520-45-6 / 771-03-9 / 16807-48-0 and EC number 208-293-9 / 212-227-4. CosIng records a restriction against it (V/13), so check the corresponding Annex entry before formulating. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 5 product labels, reaching position 7 on Lingettes intimes.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
520-45-6 / 771-03-9 / 16807-48-0
EC NUMBER
208-293-9 / 212-227-4
COSING FUNCTIONS
Preservative
COSING RESTRICTION
V/13

Sample products containing DEHYDROACETIC ACID

Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.

PRODUCT LABEL POSITION
Nourishing micellar shampoo #24
Lingettes intimes #7
Boost curl, gelée capillaire anti déshydratation #10
Żel pod prysznic wnwrgetyzujący #20
Moist toilet tissues #8

Query DEHYDROACETIC ACID in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "DEHYDROACETIC ACID"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])

The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.

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